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Consciousness, attention, and conscious attention
"In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and consciousness appear to share similar qualities. But, Montemayor and Haladjian point out, attention is defined functionally, whereas consciousness is generally defined in terms of …
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- 9780262327497
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) :illustrations
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The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover.Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262255189
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) :illustrations
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Perplexities of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295338
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- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
"A Bradford Book."A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscienc…
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- 9780262305204
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The wonder of consciousness: Understanding the mind through philosophical ref…
Langsam investigates the way certain features of some of our conscious states intelligibly relate us to features of the world of which we are conscious.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298438
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- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
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Dream life: An experimental memoir
A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295598
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- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281690
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- 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) :illustrations
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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.
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- 9780262287036
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
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The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious …
Recent advances in the study of visual cognition and consciousness have dealt primarily with steady-state properties of visual processing, with little attention to its dynamic aspects. The First Half Second brings together for the first time the latest research on the dynamics of conscious and unconscious processing of visual information, examining the time-course of visual processes from the m…
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- 9780262316293
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- 1 online resource (vii, 410 pages) :illustrations
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Altered states of consciousness :experiences out of time and self
"What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication--our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long …
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- 9780262347730
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) :illustrations
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